Looking into Java EE 6 and OSGI

At devoxx last year, it became quite clear that the industry is moving towards more lightweight approaches for enterprise development.

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JavaFX DOA?

After attending the Devoxx 2009 conference in Antwerp this year and seeing a number of presentations on JavaFX I got motivated for using it. The main reasons for looking at it would be: 

  • it runs on the JVM so integrates nicely with other features/libraries in Java. For mobile it is based on MIDP which is available on many devices. 
  • it is a really compact expressive declarative syntax for user interfaces which is attractive
  • both desktop and mobile clients can share most of the code. Simple applications can be deployed with minimal modification on both desktops and mobiles. 

Therefore, I did some digging into the possibilities on the internet. 
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Favorite song: Little Boots – New in town


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Myths about operational excellence

Ok, so every company wants to improve operational excellence in software development, i.e. develop more functionality in a shorter amount with less people. Unfortunately, a number of myths persevere about this subject.

 

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Reverse Engineering

A design of some sort that gets progressively worse over time. Often seen in IT.

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some useful definitions

Strategy, [strt-j], plural: strategies, A careful plan or method which is never executed. 

Crisis, [ krī-səs], plural: crises, The usual state in a company that prevents the execution of any strategy. 

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UPS and storage rack installed

Last week the storage rack and UPS arrived so I had quite a lot of work to do.
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server rack installed

I received the rack this weekend and put it to use immediately

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First steps in LAN transformation…

I have now taken the first step in the transformation of my local network, which is about robustness and 19'' rackmount form factor. 
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Caught the server virus again…

So here I am in this situation again. I definitely have a bad case of the server virus.
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